| Platform SDK: Active Directory, ADSI, and Directory Services |
The IADsLocality interface is designed for representing the geographical location, or region, of a directory entity. This interface is one of several that provide support for directory services to organize accounts by country, locality (region), organization (company), or organizational unit (department). This interface manages locality, the IADsO interface manages organization, and the IADsOU interface manages the organization unit.
When a directory service provides hierarchical groupings of directory entries by country, locality, organization, or organization unit, you can use this and the related interfaces to expand the directory tree accordingly. In this case, the IADsLocality interface is implemented by a locality object that implements the IADsContainer interface as well.
IADsLocality is a dual interface that inherits from IADs. The IADsLocality interface exposes the following property methods.
| IUnknown methods | Description |
|---|---|
| QueryInterface | Returns pointers to supported interfaces. |
| AddRef | Increments reference count. |
| Release | Decrements reference count. |
| IDispatch methods | Description |
|---|---|
| GetTypeInfoCount | Gets the number of type descriptions. |
| GetTypeInfo | Gets a description of object's programmable interface. |
| GetIDsOfNames | Maps name of method or property to DISPID. |
| Invoke | Calls one of the object's methods, or gets and sets one of its properties. |
| IADsLocality property methods | Description |
|---|---|
| get/put_Description | Gets and sets the description of the geographical region as represented by this object. |
| get/put_LocalityName | Gets and sets the name of this region. |
| get/put_PostalAddress | Gets and sets the main post office address of this region. |
| get/put_SeeAlso | Gets and sets any other information relevant to this region. |
Windows NT/2000: Requires Windows 2000 (or Windows NT 4.0 with DSClient).
Windows 95/98: Requires Windows 95 or later (with DSClient).
Header: Declared in Iads.h.